2018 Results - UNDP Yemen

31 Dec 2018

Summary

Since 2015, armed conflict has fueled a crisis of unprecedented magnitude in what was already the poorest country in the Arab region. With nearly 80 per cent of the population in need of humanitarian assistance and protection, the Yemeni crisis is the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster.

Engaging local capacities, systems and institutions, UNDP is assisting Yemen in building back better.

Highlights

Over 7.1 million employment work days created for crisis-affected people

Nearly 290,000 people from vulnerable households employed in cash-for-work programmes (indirectly benefiting over two million)

Over 2.3 million people received water, education and improved roads

Nearly 2,500 classrooms refurbished

370 kilometres (approximately 230 miles) of roads improved

Over 4,000 hectares (approximately 10 acres) of farmland built or improved